inspiration files: va-va vignettes

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The word vignette is quite the confusing term for me. For starters, I have trouble pronouncing it {apparently it’s vin-yet}. Second, defining it. You see it used in all reference to home decorating, a lot, and it sums up the concept perfectly ~ those lovely little arrangements that just are that the incredibly stylish who walk among us just throw together with pieces from their travels or their thrifting adventures.

However, your standard dictionary doesn’t include such a clear definition. Although you can see where it has evolved. According to dictionary.com:

–noun
1.a decorative design or small illustration used on the title page of a book or at the beginning or end of a chapter.

2.an engraving, drawing, photograph, or the like that is shaded off gradually at the edges so as to leave no definite line at the border.

3.a decorative design representing branches, leaves, grapes, or the like, as in a manuscript.

4.any small, pleasing picture or view.

5.a small, graceful literary sketch.

So I guess it comes under the pleasing view. In this case, that’s what drawn me into these pictures. That “pleasing view”. The arrangement of random objects.

Clockwise from left via: oh hello you pretty things; From Scandanavia with Love; who can resist some French flair ~ everything fab;  The Design Files; design*sponge.
{all on my “inspiration files” board on pinterest}

I like to arrange vin-yets myself around the house, and have those corners that I pass by that just make me smile. How about you?